A library to submit extrinsics to a substrate node via RPC.
See examples.
Most tests require a running substrate node to communicate with. This is done by spawning an instance of the
substrate node per test. It requires an executable binary substrate
at v3.0.0
on your path.
This can be done by downloading the prebuilt binary:
curl "https://releases.parity.io/substrate/x86_64-debian:stretch/v3.0.0/substrate/substrate" --output substrate --location
chmod +x ./substrate
mv substrate ~/.local/bin
Or installed from source via cargo:
cargo install --git https://github.com/paritytech/substrate node-cli --tag=v3.0.0 --force
Alternatives
substrate-api-client provides similar functionality.
By default the client builder will connect to a full node via rpc. The subxt-client
helps
embedding a light client directly. It can also be used to embed a full node. This is especially
useful for testing and ci.